Psychology
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Consciousness and altered states
A reader’s guide to microdosing
How to use small doses of psychedelics to lift your mood, enhance your focus, and fire your creativity
Tunde Aideyan
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Work
Does capitalism make ‘non-playable characters’ of us all? An uncanny exploration
21 minutes
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Technology and the self
A ‘virtual outing’ on Google Maps reveals a treasured image from Diego’s past
6 minutes
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Technology and the self
An artist swaps her head with everyday objects in a musing on consumerism
4 minutes
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Subcultures
Of memes and magick
Bending a mysterious world to your will was the goal of esoteric practices. Now it’s the unashamed aim of the tech titans
Tara Isabella Burton
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Computing and artificial intelligence
Struggling to learn how to do a backflip, Nikita takes on an unusual training regimen
12 minutes
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Film and visual culture
The truth of photographs
It’s often said that a successful picture ‘captures the essence’ of a subject. But a great photograph does so much more
Daniel Star
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Technology and the self
Why we should worry less about ‘sentient’ AIs and more about what we’re teaching them
16 minutes
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Technology and the self
Greetings from Green Bank – the small town where modern technology is banned
10 minutes
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History of technology
The long-awaited arrival of TV to Shetland sparks debate in this vintage clip
9 minutes
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Politics and government
‘Without a poster, you don’t exist!’ – on the curious political banners of Mumbai
20 minutes
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History of technology
We’ve always been distracted
Worried that technology is ‘breaking your brain’? Fears about attention spans and focus are as old as writing itself
Joe Stadolnik
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The future
What’s the healthiest way to handle a creeping feeling that the world is ending?
15 minutes
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Social psychology
Social contagions can cause genuine illness, and TikTok may be a superspreader
10 minutes
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Technology and the self
One woman prepares for the risky solitude of Georgia O’Keeffe’s American West
8 minutes
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Work
Catch those idle moments of connection between coworkers on a smoke break
10 minutes
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Technology and the self
Adaptive technologies have helped Stephen Hawking, and many more, find their voice
5 minutes
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Values and beliefs
How a God-fearing Jewish woman found atheism – and bacon – in her later years
9 minutes
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Technology and the self
Help! Brain overload
As tasks mount up, our brain’s ability to juggle goes down. Neuroergonomic tactics can relieve the cognitive burden
Emily Willingham
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Gender and identity
How the spy-cam epidemic in South Korea affects the women who are its victims
35 minutes
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Mood and emotion
Close-ups on the night of anticipation in the 2020 US presidential elections
6 minutes
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Technology and the self
‘Perfection is for the gods,’ and this sculptor gets to a thousandth of an inch of it
14 minutes
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Technology and the self
When an AI rejects him for life insurance, Mitch wonders if he can escape his fate
7 minutes
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Sleep and dreams
Inside your dreamscape
Dream-hacking techniques can help us create, heal and have fun. They could also become tools of commercial manipulation
Adam Haar Horowitz, Robert Stickgold & Antonio Zadra